He added: "[The] Game went to a count. #AlphaGo won by just half a
point, the closest margin possible."

DeepMind's AlphaGo algorithm - which is underpinned by new
artificial intelligence techniques and is arguably one of the
most famous algorithms in the world at the moment - is playing a
series of matches in China this week.

Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and the executive chairman
of Alphabet, Google's parent company, has flown in for the event,
as has David Silver, the lead programmer on AlphaGo.

DeepMind writes on its website that
it hopes to uncover more secrets of the ancient game at the
"Future of Go Summit," where it'll also be playing different
versions of Go.

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DeepMind

Go is an
ancient two-player board game that was invented in China some
3,000 years ago. It's relatively simple: each player takes it in
turns to lay a stone, with the objective being to surround the
other player's pieces. However, it has been incredibly difficult
for computers to master due to the sheer number of potential
moves.